At 10:26 AM 3/5/2003 -0500, Steve Coleman wrote: >It wouldn't replace setup.exe since the initial install would still have >to be done but it might be a good idea to have something that could >check if there are updates to designated packages that are deemed >important to the specific Cygwin user, and notify or even just perform >the updates like the "Windows Update" service. One administrator might >grab the latest packages and store them on a corporate server and all >the workstations via crontab could then install from their central file >server thus easing the load on all the Cygwin mirrors.
On the linux side, that's what apt-get does. And does it very nicely. Ask any Debian user. Apparently, some people are working on porting atp-get to Cygwin: http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net The dates are about 18 months old. Are there others that are more current? Regards, - Robert -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
